What is the difference between explosives and auditory affricatives?

Answer 1

If I understand what your question, you need to know the difference between two different types of English consonants.
English consonants have been studied and phoneticians have agreed to classify them by the following:
1) voicing,
2) place of articulation, and
3) manner of production.
Manner of production

1) Plosives/stops: produced by complete obstruction of air flow. Plosive release followed by air flow through glottis.
2) Fricatives: produced by partial closure of the vocal tract and sustained air flow.
3) Affricates: produced by complete closure, followed by sustained air flow through point of articulation.
4) Glides: changes in resonance patterns produced by changing position of articulators during production of sound.
5) Nasals: produced by permitting air to flow through nasal cavity.

Phases of the production of plosives.
Catch: The airway closes so that no air can escape through the mouth (hence the name stop). With nasal stops, the air escapes through the nose.
Hold or occlusion: The airway stays closed, causing a pressure difference to build up.
Release or burst: The closure is opened. In the case of plosives, the released airflow produces a sudden impulse causing an audible sound (hence the name plosive).

Affricate consonants begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as [t] or [d]) but release as a fricative (such as [s] or [z] or occasionally into a fricative trill) rather than directly into the following vowel.
Plosives and affricates have something in common, the air flow is stopped completely at some point of the oral track.
What makes them different is how the air is released.

Answer 2

I learned the names as plosives and fricatives. I may be wrong, I'm trying to find a source, but as I remember plosives are like b, p, t where there is a sudden rush of air, and in fricatives the sound is sustained, plosives and fricatives are often paired, and in some languages (like Hebrew) they share the same symbol with one sound being used in certain circumstances and the other under other circumstances.
B is plosive, V is fricative; P is plosive and F is the fricative; T is plosive and Th is fricative. Do you see the pattern? It is defining how you breath through the sound.
I found a good source with easy to understand explanation, second site below.
According to a site for linguistic education,"Another fundamental distinction of consonants is made between so-called plosives and continuants. Plosives are consonants that are brought about by an explosive release of air from the mouth, e.g. [t as in tin]. They are also called stops, or oral stops. If the air is released through the nose, we call the resulting consonant is a nasal plosive, as in [m as in mouth] or [n as in nose], which is also called nasal stop since the mouth is kept closed for the most part.
"If the air continues to be released after the articulation of the consonant, the sound is a continuant. If we let out air continuously through a space behind the upper teeth, the so-called alveolar ridge, we produce a type of continuant sound called fricative, e.g., [f as in fate]."

Answer 3

Considering just the words themelves, I would say that an explosive causes things to blow apart, whereas an auditory affricative just makes a loud noise.